Would anyone be interested in helping to create a list/overview of groups like we used to have? And does anyone have a wiki or a location where we can put it? Groups a a really great feature of !gnusocial and I think it's helpful for newbies and methusalem fediversians both. !fedgroups !fediverseabout 5 months agofrom quitter.ispermalinkRepeated by mmn

Would anyone be interested in helping to create a list/overview of groups like we used to have? And does anyone have a wiki or a location where we can put it? Groups a a really great feature of !gnusocial and I think it's helpful for newbies and methusalem fediversians both. !fedgroups !fediverseabout 5 months agofrom quitter.ispermalink

I understand that my suggestion for distributed management of !Fedgroups is something that is not supported at all with the current !GNUsocial architecture. Implementing something like that would be a major undertaking. I wonder if cooperative, distributed group administration and membership maintenance could be implemented with a plugin...about 5 months agofrom sn.jonkman.capermalink

I'm not centralizing my group subscriptions on purpose, but it's a #NetworkEffect caused by the lack of distributed !Fedgroups hosting -- if I could create another group on my server with the same group name, and if my server then shared the load to distribute messages for the same people already subscribed to that group on other servers, I would have created a new group. It would…about 5 months agofrom sn.jonkman.capermalink

So, for all you new users, there's this OStatus thing called "groups", which is indicated with a bang ( ! ), where you can follow, say, a topic (music, security, crypto, games and whatnot), or a specific thing (emacs, coffee etc.), or even a greeting (the tzag group for Time Zone Appropriate Greetings), regardless of who posts about it. It's a pretty powerful tool, a…about 8 months agofrom social.umeahackerspace.sepermalink